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Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos Wins Re-Election

Oscar Ivan Zuluaga Defeated in Vote Seen as Referendum on Talks With FARC

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Dan Molinski and

Juan Forero

Updated June 15, 2014 8:33 p.m. ET

BOGOTÁ, Colombia—President Juan Manuel Santos won re-election Sunday in a vote many here saw as a referendum on his peace process with leftist rebels, negotiations he pledges will end a bloody, 50-year conflict.

Mr. Santos, a 62-year-old center-right politician close to the Obama administration, sought a second four-year term on the strength of the negotiations he began 19 months ago in Havana with Marxist rebels. He had cast the election as a vote between war and peace, saying that if he wasn't re-elected, his opponent...